At the risk of repeating myself...

This picture sums up the weather! 

 I found the statue above, broken, lying in a local dump years ago.  It was Mother's Day and I had just come from church.  (What does it say about me that I would go to a dump on Mother's Day??)   Hmmmm....not sure, but anyway, I saw the statue and had to have it.  So, there I was, teetering in my high heels, trying to hoist this heavy cement into my trunk along with a basin and incredibly heavy pedestal (for this was a fountain at one time) and hoping there was no one around to see a crazy woman.  So much of our 'decor' around here is cast-off stuff from somewhere else but I'm still glad I risked a hernia getting this one.

Volunteer Rudbeckia (thru a foggy lens, lol)

Foggy!!

 

A little better....?

Yes, I know, broken record here, but things are soggy.  I went out with the camera this morning to take some pictures for Fertilizer Friday and the camera lens kept fogging up.  After I carefully cleared off the lens, I still couldn't see very well, and realized my glasses were fogged up, too.  The humidity must be at 2000% out there or something and the mosquitoes are lovin' every minute of it.  I had to speed through the pictures as a chorus of whining was ringing in my ears and my hands were getting bitten up. We got another 1 1/2" of rain yesterday and today is just dark, gloomy and super-humid.  I guess the old adage, 'be careful what you pray for' rings true.  We asked for rain, and we got it.

Echinacea 'Fragrant Angel'

Since it's so dark out I had to try to hold perfectly still so the pictures aren't so blurry, but between trying to swat off the vampires and not wanting to kneel on the wet grass, and hold my breath all at the same time, well, this is as good as it's going to get, sorry!

'Dry' riverbed

The area above used to be a small pond but we took it out after we built the quarry garden.  Anyway, one of my bright ideas was to leave the area lower than the rest of the yard since we spent days digging out the dirt for the pond and turn it into a dry riverbed. Not the best perspective, I realize, so moving on........

The rudbeckias are coming into bloom already, hope they last a long time!

Would you look at the water in the pond??  Wow, this is July!  Normally it would be way down.

The new east berm is filling in pretty well with Dahlberg daisy and 'Imagination' verbena

The hill behind the quarry, if it weren't for the volunteer rudbeckias, there wouldn't be much happening.

Despite the rain, the new clematis are still blooming.

 A bit bedraggled but trying

Darker than ever in the hosta bed, the white shows up!

One of Rosehill Gardens daylily cultivars

My swan planters from Mom

'Kyushu' hydrangea

The front garden

Hemerocallis 'Persian Ruby'

'Magnus' echinacea with 'Baby Blue Eyes' spruce

'Magnus' and 'White Swan' echinacea and oh, yeah, rocks!

This used to be a fountain too-a gift from Carl's folks

The basin is in rough shape, so we decided to just put her in the garden.

Our newest lily, 'Robina'

Russian Sage - due to the wet weather, kind of tired

Old-fashioned Tiger Lily

Loads of Tiger Lilies in bloom

We need an army of dragonflies and frogs to eat the mosquitoes!

Not sure on name here, might be 'Stargazer'

'Kyushu' hydrangea

Screech the Kitty

Ok, with that, Screech Kitty and I say goodbye and thanks for visiting!

Karen